Thomas Martin Bass in Canada

[Staggering on]

Not many of these over here but you can see another photo and a story in my post in General Discussion "How was your gig last night". It is a 3/4 bass with a 42 inch string length and although it is not a very big bass it has a massive sound and came with a C extension and is lovely to play and sounds fantastic, too bad it's not mine.😊

 

 

 

 

 

[MacDaddy]

Love a C extension (3 of my basses have D extensions). 

Despite them being required by many orchestras (try playing Mahler 3 without one!) that's the first one I've seen in the wild 😎

[NickA]

Mahler and Elgar (amongst others) didn't seem to know the normal range of a double bass 😂.   I doubt extensions existed back then either. 

 

I've had to retune to DADG or CGDG on occasion ..a friend has a BEADG 5 string which is the best way to go.  Extensions are awkward and ugly imo.

 

No fan of Mahler anyway.

 

But T&G Martin make some lovely basses ..if yr loaded enough.